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Exploring the work during my first Artist Residency at CFCCA in Manchester.

The Circuit – A Movement Scenario

Scaling up from small twigs to tree trunks

Just Another Exhibition Space

An update on the internet research I have been doing about the care facilities within Fylde, Blackpool and Wyre.

Small Town Inertia by J A Mortram inspires hope at the Workers Gallery

Making a piece of work for art/archaeology

This blog charts my 2019 a-n Bursary trip in The UK looking at Automata models and movements, and learning new wire skills. It’s a physical journey, but also a time of movement and change after illness and travelling towards a new artistic practice.

Two A-N relevant anniversaries are approaching…

As a twenty-year-old working-class lad from Hull, I looked into a mirror in the back bedroom of my parent’s council house and drew myself (above). Capturing a moment in time with a simple pencil. It wasn’t bad. It showed some […]

As a teaching artist, I am always looks for ways to improve the quality of their drawing and painting skills, as well as their well-being.

2 week R&D residency at the international Centre for Choreography, Dance4, Nottingham 1-14 July. Supported by A-N-Bursaries.

A research project funded by A-N Artist Bursary (2019).

Above image: object/detail from installation, ‘as small as the world and as large as alone.’ shown at Project78Gallery, St Leonards on Sea, 2019

It’s been 1 year since my #MagicCarpet was launched at the Art Workers Guild, when we unpacked the term ‘neurodiverse art’. Since then, there’s been a mini-explosion of activities tagged ‘neurodiversity’ in UK arts & academia, but, or hence, the term remains contested.

As an artist, photographer, writer or creative entrepreneur there’s nothing we understand more through our working life than resilience. And what is this resilience?

out and about with the Fruit Factory Network based at Humber Street Gallery; encountering, reflecting, acting…